With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the "aggies" use the North Side Tennis Courts), but in private life he was less decorous.

With all his Weeks, Pickerbaugh had time to preside over the Program Committee of the State Convention of Health Officers and Agencies.

We’ll extend this to everything! We’ll have scores of physicians in hospitals helping us and confirming our results and widening our efforts…… We might have a weekly council of all these doctors and assistants, with you and me jointly presiding…… If men like Koch and Pasteur had only had such a system, how much more SCOPE their work might have had! Efficient universal CO-OPERATION—that’s the thing in science today—the time of this silly, jealous, fumbling individual research has gone…

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She will preside over the meeting.

At a sign from the presiding judge, one of the court officers led her away,